Vogue Italia, May 2008 - Eva Mendes Photo by Steven Meisel

Vogue Italia, May 2008 - Eva Mendes Photo by Steven Meisel

Vogue Italia, May 2008 - Eva Mendes Photo by Steven Meisel

Vogue Italia, May 2008 - Eva Mendes Photo by Steven Meisel

Ryan Goslingis seeing someone. More specifically, Ryan Gosling is not seeing Rachel McAdams, the one girlfriend his fans would happily sacrifice him to because, you know, The Notebook. Ryan Gosling is seeing someone, that someone is Eva Mendes and people are this close to being literally on fire over it.

In a lot of ways, the whole brouhaha is reminiscent of when Justin Bieber started seeing Selena Gomez and Beliebers felt so collectively insulted that they just had to send the poor girl a death threat or two. (Yes, outraged Gosling fans, we are comparing you to tween girls: make of it what you will.) But instead of a skinny and inoffensive Disney star, Gosling has taken up with a smouldering hot latina with the body and attitude of a goddess. The kind of woman we all secretly wish we were.

Much as we dislike approving of a couple simply based on their looks, the juxtaposition of total blonde and absolute brunette is extremely easy on the eyes, as we suppose would be the imaginary spawn resulting from an imaginary marriage (of course it would be an intimate affair that we would only learn of several months later, if ever, because he's that kind of guy).

So smooch on, you guys, while we work out a suitably corny collective nickname for you: Mesling? Gondes? Ryeva? Any suggestions?